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At 09:25 PM 1/9/96 EST, Kenneth Yee wrote: >The following is a summary of my experiences w/ my 760CD >which I got just before X-mas ;-) Lucky stiff! >FEATURES >-------- >1) MPEG2 >The Thinkpad also comes >installed w/ 256 color drivers whereas the demo needs 64K color >drivers...no idea why IBM didn't install 64K color video drivers >as the default. Simple: Performance. The 256 is a lot faster, especially when you're driving an external display. >2) 12.1" Screen >One interesting thing to >note is that the manual for the thinkpad lists the specs on the >display as being able to show 16.7M colors. Could it be that the >chipset VRAM is limiting the display capabilities? Yep. *sigh* >4) Mwave >Under OS/2 Warp Connect loses characters according to the slip >program. It can't write characters to the Mwave driver >(possibly because of the heavy swapping) at times. The >modem doesn't like hooking to Hayes 28.8K modems at full speed >but a Microcom Deskporte EP I have does. It hooks up to USR >28.8K modems with no problems. Make sure you have the latest Warp fixes for serial ports and SLIP/PPP. >5) I can overrun the key rollover buffer in the keyboard. I >don't have a problem w/ my desktop's Northgate keyboard. Is this really the hardware or the OS? Thanks very much for the review. I'm planning to buy the next high-end ThinkPad out of the shoot, and you've got me drooling! Cheers, ssh -- Steve Hultquist Worldwide Solutions, Inc. Distributed Systems and Internet Engineering Boulder, Colorado